For a full two hours, more of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was shown in a stream and cleared up with some incorrect info.
At gamescom in August, a version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was playable, but now the team has presented this version in great detail in a two-hour stream So if you want to get a good impression of the big city of Kuttenberg a few months before the release in February, you can simply catch up on the developer stream right now.
On top of that, there was also some information about rumors surrounding Kingdom Come 2 during the stream. According to this, the question of Denuvo as copy protection came up again and again. PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling took the opportunity to officially announce a waiver of the controversial DRM service .
No Denuvo, no DRM
Denuvo has been viewed very critically by the gaming community for a long time now The DRM software is accused, among other things, of shortening the lifespan of SSD hard drives and having too much influence on how technically clean a game runs.
Accordingly, the announcement of Warhorse is now creating a lot of anticipation In the gameplay stream, the Stolz-Zwilling literally said:
I see stuff flying around in the chat, stuff on the internet. And a lot of it is complete fake news. […] I can tell you the exact situation and the truth is that KCD2 will not include Denuvo or any DRM system at all.
In this, Warhorse is following in the footsteps of Bioware with Dragon Age: The Veilguard However, a lack of DRM could of course lead to similar disadvantages as with Dragon Age. Doing without DRM also means, for example, that there is no preload.
What else is new?
For many, however, at the end of the day, the question of whether they like the game or not will be less about Denuvo and more about the specific content. Of course, there was some of that to be seen in the stream, although little was completely new. As I said, the version is still from gamescom.
Nevertheless, there is some nice information that you can take a closer look at in the stream:
- There was a list of the possible punishments by the city guards. Among them were unpleasant things like the pillory, cane beatings, branding and even execution.
- If you play in German, you will miss out on some extremely funny language barriers.In the English gameplay, Heinrich comes across a German sword master who speaks a wild mixture of both languages, i.e. Denglish. This results in wild sentences like: “You must break into their fencing hall and steal their guild sword and then hang it on the town hall.”
- Towards the end, there is a small taste of one of the and tournaments, albeit only in the form of a simple scuffle on foot. Tournaments in KCD2 are supposed to be bigger than in the predecessor.
- In some places, the game map was shown, which, although stylized, gives a good sense of the size of the open world.
All in all, there is a lot to see, even if it’s just how responsive this game world is to you and which conversation options help you to play exactly the character you want to be.
